EDUCATION

• B.A., Oakland University, 1966

• Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1971
  

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

• NIH PD Fellow, Harvard University, 1972-1973

• NAS Visiting Scholar, A.N. Bakh Academy of Sciences Institute of Biochemistry, 1973

• Postdoctoral Research, University of California San Diego, 1971-1972
  

HONORS AND AWARDS

• NIH NCI IMAT PI Meeting, 2021, 2022

• Editorial Board, Molecules Medicinal Chemistry, 2021-

• Scientific Committee, PBSi, Rome, Italy, 2019

• Plenary Lecturer, ORS Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, 2018

• Keynote Lecturer, IRT-23, La Jolla, CA, 2018

• Keynote Lecturer, ICPC-22, Budapest, Hungary, 2018

• USC Stevens Technology Commercialization Award, 2017

• NIH SRG ZRG1 BCMB-H 02 M, 2018

• Bisphosphonates Workshop organizer, PBSI, 2017

• USC Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2017

• USC Dornsife Dean's Award for Distinguished Service, 2017

• NIH Study Section ZRG1 IDM S 02, 2016

• Organizing Committee, IS3NA, 2016-2018

• Session Chair, CSDD-2016, Dundee, Scotland, 2016

• Panelist, National Technological Initiatives in Life Sciences (Healthcare), PhysTechBio, Moscow, 2015

• Scientific Advisory Council, PhysTechBio, Moscow, Russia, 2015

• MORE Biomedical Science Lecturer, CSU Los Angeles, 2015

• Keynote Lecturer, ICPC 2014, Dublin, Ireland, 2014

• Plenary Lecturer, CPCCE-9, Guiyang, China, 2013

• Plenary Lectuere, ICPC 2012, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2012

• Principal Lecturer, Saxon Biotechnology Symposium, Leipzig, Germany, 2012

• Chevalier, or Knight, in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms), 2012

• Mellon Mentoring Award, 2011

• Program Committee, International Conference on Antiviral Research, 2010

• USC Provost’s Prize for Teaching with Technology, 2010

• USC General Education Distinguished Service Teaching Award, 2009

• USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 2009

• Expert reviewer, Projet BQR, Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale, 2008

• Keynote Lecturer, XV Int. Conf. on Chemistry of Phosphorous Compounds, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008

• Special Lecturer, 5th Conf. Channel-Bridge Chemistry, Biology & Material Science, Tainan, Taiwan, 2008

• Co-Director, Steering Committee, International Scientific Board, ICPC, 2007

• International Advisory Board, ICCPC, 2007

• Keynote Lecturer, 17th International Conference on Phosphorous Chemistry, Xiamen, China, 2007

• NIH-NIAID SRG (AIDS Therapeutics Development), 2007

• NSF SBIR/STTR Review Panel-Drug Delivery, 2007

• Program Committee, International Society for Anti-viral Research, 2007

• USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 2007

• CET Distinguished Faculty Fellow Award, 2006

• Nanqiang Lecturer, Xiamen University, 2006

• Plenary Lecturer, National Conference on Phosphorous Chemistry, Zhengzhou, China, 2006

• USC Associates Award For Excellence In Teaching, 2006

• Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005

• Oakland University Chemistry Department Distinguished Alumni Award, 2005

• Oakland University Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, 2005
  

INVITED RESEARCH LECTURES

• 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Nuclear Imaging, Vancouver, Canada, June 11-14, 2022

• Bisphosphonates2019, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 15-17, 2019

• XXIII International Roundtable On Nucleosides, Nucleotides And Nucleic Acids, La Jolla, California, August 26-30, 2018

• 22nd International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary, July 8-13, 2018

• International Conference and Expo on Clinical Virology and Infectious Diseases, Houston, Texas, September 18-19, 2017

• 3rd Drug Delivery Strategies: Advanced Mechanisms & Product Design Summit, Philadelphia, PA, September 6-7, 2017

• International Conference On Phosphorus, Boron and Silicon, Paris, France, July 3-5, 2017

• 30th International Conference on Antiviral Research (ICAR), Atlanta, Georgia, May 21-25, 2017

• 4th Antivirals Congress 2016, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain,  September 18-21, 2016

• 2nd International Conference on Clinical Sciences and Drug Discovery, Dundee, Scotland, July 27-29, 2016

• XXII International Roundtable on Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids (IS3NA), Paris, France,  July 18-22, 2016

• 7th International Workshop on Advances in the Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Bone and other Musculoskeletal Diseases (MolPharm Workshop), Oxford, UK, July 2-5, 2016

• 21st International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry, Kazan, Russia, June 5-10, 2016

• 29th International Conference on Antiviral Research (ICAR), La Jolla, California, April 17-21, 2016

• International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies 2015 (Pacifichem 2015), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2015

• 10th Chinese National Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry and Industry, Xinxiang, Henan Province, China, October 24, 2015

• Russian-American Workshop, Ministry of Education and Science, Moscow, Russia, April 27, 2015

• 6th International Workshop on Advances in the Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Bone Disease, Oxford, UK, June 28-July 2, 2014

• 20th International Symposium on Phosphorus Chemistry, Dublin, Ireland, June 28 -July 2, 2014

• 17th International Conference on Antiviral Research, Durham, North Carolina, May 12-15, 2014

• 38th FEBS Congress, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 6-11, 2013

• 2nd French-American Workshop (FAW2013), Grenoble, France, July 1-2, 2013

• CPCCE-9, Guiyang, China, May 22-24, 2013

• 9th International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry, Rotterdam, Holland, July  8-12, 2012

• 5th International Workshop on Advances in the Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Bone Disease, Oxford, UK, June 27-30, 2012

• Saxon Biotechnology Symposium, Leipzig, Germany, June 20, 2012